Relativity Made Relatively Easy

Relativity Made Relatively Easy

Andrew M. Steane

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Offers a thorough treatment suitable for any undergraduate course on relativity

Clear and careful explanations

Profound insights into many wonderful physical phenomena

Richly illustrated

Opens up General Relativity with precision but without the need for tensor analysis

Relativity Made Relatively Easy presents an extensive study of Special Relativity and a gentle (but exact) introduction to General Relativity for undergraduate students of physics. Assuming almost no prior knowledge, it allows the student to handle all the Relativity needed for a university course, with explanations as simple, thorough, and engaging as possible.

The aim is to make manageable what would otherwise be regarded as hard; to make derivations as simple as possible and physical ideas as transparent as possible. Lorentz invariants and four-vectors are introduced early on, but tensor notation is postponed until needed. In addition to the more basic ideas such as Doppler effect and collisions, the text introduces more advanced material such as radiation from accelerating charges, Lagrangian methods, the stress-energy tensor, and introductory General Relativity, including Gaussian curvature, the Schwarzschild solution, gravitational lensing, and black holes. A second volume will extend the treatment of General Relativity somewhat more thoroughly, and also introduce Cosmology, spinors, and some field theory.

Readership: Physics students at the undergraduate and beginning graduate level. click to read more

Categories:
Physics – Theory of Relativity and Gravitation

Year:
2012

Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA

Language:
english

Pages:
436

ISBN 10:
019966286X

ISBN 13:
9780199662852

File:
PDF, 14.78 MB